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Academic Search Complete (SUNYConnect):A multidisciplinary databases of more than 6,100 periodicals with coverage for some journals going back to 1887.
African American Music Reference: Offers essays covering blues, jazz, spirituals, civil rights songs, slave songs, minstrelsy, rhythm and blues, gospel, and other forms of black American musical expression.
AgeLine: Includes citations and summaries of age-related research in fields such as psychology, sociology, social work, and the health sciences.
AICPA Accounting Literature (password required -call the reference desk at x3222) : Library has access to Not-for-Profit Organizations - Checklists and Illustrative Financial Statements. Click on "My Subscriptions" under "Additional Resources" and enter password to access.
America: History and Life: Locate research articles on the history of the United States and Canada from prehistory to the present. Citations, summaries, and links full text articles are available, with coverage dating back to 1954.
American Chemical Society Journals: Contains full text journals published by the American Chemical Society, some of which go back to the first volume and issue.
American Civil War Letters and Diaries: Contains over 2000 authors and approximately 100,000 pages of diaries, letters and memoirs from the American Civil War Era
American Film Scripts Online: Currently contains over 800 scripts by more than 900 writers together with detailed, fielded information on the scenes, characters and people related to the scripts.
American National Biography: Locate full text biographies for over 17,400 American men and women. Includes images.
American Song: A history database that allows people to hear and feel the music from America's past.The database includes songs by and about American Indians, miners, immigrants, slaves, children, pioneers, and cowboys. Included in the database are the songs of Civil Rights, political campaigns, Prohibition, the Revolutionary War, the Civil War, anti-war protests, and more.
Annual Reviews: Locate full text analytic reviews in 33 focused disciplines within the Biomedical, Physical, and Social Sciences. Coverage dates back to the 1930s for some publications.
ARLO: Contains peer reviewed multimedia and letters pertaining to research in all fields of Acoustics.
ArtStor: Contains over 550,000 high quality images in the areas of art, architecture, the humanities and social sciences with a set of tools to view, present, and manage images.
ArticleFirst: This non-full text database indexes thousands of articles from hundreds of publishers.
Asian American Drama: Contains 252 plays (many previously unpublished) by 42 playwrights. Also includes selected playbills, production photographs and other ephemera related to the plays.
Associates Program Source (SUNYConnect):Contains 1,000 full text journal and 11 full text books.
Association for Computing Machinery Digital Core Library: A full text collection of every article published by ACM, including over 50 years of archives.
Biography & Genealogy Master Index: Locate citations to biographical articles published in reference books. Use to locate information on people both living and deceased, from all areas of the world.
BioOne: Contains citations and summaries of articles published in over 82 journals focusing on the biological, ecological and environmental sciences. Links to full text are sometimes available.
Black Drama: Contains approximately 1200 plays by 201 playwrights. Also includes selected playbills, production photographs and other ephemera related to the plays.
Business & Company Resource Center 
: Provides company and industry information on thousands of global companies, as well as topical business information.
Business Source Complete (SUNYConnect): Provides access to thousands of full text business journals. Coverage goes back to 1886.
Business Source Premier (SUNYConnect) : Provides full text for over 3000 scholarly business journals. Coverage includes virtually all subject areas related to business and dates back to 1922.
Canadian Reference Centre (SUNYConnect): Contains Canadian magazines, newspapers, newswires and reference books. Also contains images and biographies.
Career and Vocational Database: A collection of journals pertaining to vocational research.
Chronicle of Higher Education: Learn what is going on in other colleges and universities. The Chronicle is the academic newspaper of choice for many in higher education. Requires a username/password for access. Call the reference desk at 673-3222 for more information
CINAHL Plus with Full Text (SUNYConnect) : Search for full text articles in the fields of allied health and nursing.
CIOS: Provides citations and summaries of articles in the field of Communication. Some full text linking is available.
Classical Music Library: One of the largest multi-label database of Classical music recordings for listening and learning in libraries. The growing collection of 50,000-plus tracks includes recordings from the world's greatest labels including Hyperion, Bridge Records, Sanctuary Classics, Artemis-Vanguard, Hänssler Classic, Vox and many more.
Classical Music Reference Library: Contains reference materials spanning the entire history of Western classical music,. Included are the authoritative reference titles Baker's Dictionary of Music, Baker's Biographical Dictionary of Musicians, and Baker's Student Encyclopedia of Music.
Classical Scores Library: Currently contains over 12,000 music scores online.
Computers and Applies Sciences Complete (SUNYConnect): Contains the full text of computing journals as well as the applied sciences
Computer Source (SUNYConnect): Contains nearly 300 full text journals and magazines covering topics such as computer science, programming, artificial intelligence, cybernetics, information systems, robotics, and software.
Contemporary World Music: Contemporary World Music delivers the sounds of all regions from every continent. The database contains genres such as reggae, worldbeat, neo-traditional, world fusion, Balkanic jazz, African film, Bollywood, Arab swing and jazz, and other genres such as traditional music - Indian classical, fado, flamenco, klezmer, zydeco, gospel, gagaku, and more.
CountryWatch: Provides up-to-date information and news on the countries of the world.
CQ Researcher: Research events currently in the news
DRAM: From folk to opera, Native American to jazz, 19th century classical to early rock, musical theater, contemporary, electronic and beyond, New World, DRAM offers over 1900 CD quality recordings online.
EBSCO Databases: Search several databases at once via this interface.
Electronic Collections Online: A collection of scholarly journals covering a myriad of topics.
Education Research Complete (SUNYConnect) : Offers one of the largest and most complete collection of full text education journals and covers scholarly research and information relating to all areas of education from early childhood to higher education.
Elsevier ScienceDirect (SUNYConnect) : Access the full text of over 700 titles in the sciences, social sciences and mathematics.
Emily Dickinson's Correspondences: This archive brings together seventy-four poems and letters from Emily’s correspondence with her sister-in-law, Susan Dickinson, dating from the 1850s to the end of Dickinson’s life.
Environment Complete (SUNYConnect): Provides information in the areas of agriculture, ecosystem ecology, renewable energy sources, natural resources, marine and freshwater science, geography, pollution and waste management, environmental technology, environmental law, public policy, social impacts, urban planning, etc.
ERIC (SUNYConnect) : Provides access to education literature and resources, including more than 1,194,000 records and links to more than 100,000 full text documents.
ERIC.ed.gov: Provides access to education literature and resources. Freely accessible on the web.
FirstSearch: FirstSearch contains a myriad of databases for research, most appropriately titles such as WorldCat and ArticleFirst.
Funk and Wagnall's New World Encyclopedia: This database provides over 25,000 encyclopedic entries covering a variety of subject areas.
Gale Custom Newspapers: Search a collection of 150 newspapers, both national and international.
Gale Virtual Reference Library: A database of encyclopedias and specialized reference sources for multidisciplinary research.
Garland Encyclopedia of World Music Online: A comprehensive online resource devoted to music research of all the world's peoples. More than 9,000 pages of material, combined with entries by more than 700 expert contributors from all over the world, make this the most complete body of work focused on world music.
GreenFile: Covers all aspects of human impact to the environment. Its collection of scholarly, government and general-interest titles includes content on global warming, green building, pollution, sustainable agriculture, renewable energy, recycling, and more.
Grolier Online : Includes the following encyclopedia databases: Encyclopedia Americana, Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia, and The New Book of Knowledge.
HarpWeek (SUNYConnect) : The full text, full image edition of Harper's Weekly, a civil war era magazine. Dates of coverage: 1857-1865.
Health Source - Consumer Edition (SUNYConnect): contains consumer health information on topics such as child care, sports medicine and general health
Health Source - Nursing/Academic Edition (SUNYConnect): Contains over 500 full text scholarly journals in the medical disciplines. Also contains the Lexi-PAL Drug Guide, which covers drug information.
Health and Wellness Resource Center : A source for both health care professionals and consumers concerning important current health information.
Historical Abstracts: A guide to content covering the history of the world from prehistory to the present (EXCLUDING North America).
Hoover’s Academic: Full text directory which provides brief profiles of approximately 40,000 of the largest public and private companies worldwide. Includes company profiles, financials, news about the company, stock quotes, links to websites, and information about competitors.
First Research: Full text database which provides industry intelligence for more than 600 industries. Includes industry overviews, products, operations and technology of an industry, finance and regulation, labor statistics, and regional and international issues.
Humanities International Complete (SUNYConnect): This database includes all data from Humanities International Index plus unique full text content, much of which is not found in other databases.
IEEE Communications Society: Content includes IEEE journals in Computer Science. This database may require a username/password for access. Please contact the reference desk at 673-3222 for more information.
In The First Person: An index to primary sources, including diaries, letters, oral histories, and personal narratives.
Informe : Provides access to Spanish Language Journals
InfoTrac Databases: Link to the various databases offered by this vendor.
InfoTrac Junior Edition : Designed for students in junior high and middle school, content includes magazines, newspapers, and reference books covering current events, the arts, science, popular culture, government, history, and more.
International Bibliography of Theater and Dance: Provides full text information covering the disciplines of Theatre and Dance.
Jazz Music Library: Jazz Music Library will be the largest and most comprehensive collection of jazz available online — with thousands of jazz artists, ensembles, albums, and genres. It currently contains almost 2,000 tracks and 19.000 tracks.
JSTOR: Provides a comprehensive backfile of major scholarly journals in the Arts and Sciences, Business, Ecology & Botany, General Science, Language & Literature, and Music. Journals are not current, most having a "moving wall" or "embargo" of three to five years, depending on publication.
Latino Literature, Poetry, Drama, and Fiction: Includes fiction, poetry and plays, representing the Chicano culture, as well as the different ethnicities of Latin American writers with a Hispanic background working in the United States.
Lexis-Nexis Academic Universe: Primarily used for legal research, this source also covers news, financial, and medical information.
Lexis-Nexis Statistical: Get easy access to statistics produced by the U.S. government, major international intergovernmental organizations, professional and trade organizations, commercial publishers, independent research organizations, state government agencies, and universities.
Library, Information Science & Technology Abstract: Subject coverage includes librarianship, classification, cataloging, bibliometrics, online information retrieval, information management and more. Coverage in the database extends back as far as the mid-1960s.
LISTA plus full text (SUNYConnect): Contains full text to over 500 core journals in librarianship.
Literature Resource Center: Covers writers (novelists, poets, essayists, journalists and others) with in-depth material for the 2500 most studied authors. Includes standard reference sources: Contemporary Authors; Dictionary of Literary Biography; Contemporary Literary Criticism (Select); and the Encyclopedia of Literature.
MasterFile Premier: This multidisciplinary database provides full text for nearly 1,750 general reference publications with full text information dating as far back as 1975. Covering virtually every subject area of general interest, MasterFILE Premier also contains full text for nearly 500 reference books and 164,424 primary source documents, as well as an Image Collection of over 453,000 photos, maps & flags.
MathSciNet: A carefully maintained and easily searchable database of reviews, abstracts and bibliographic information for much of the mathematical sciences literature.
MedLine (SUNYConnect) : The standard search tool from the National Library of Medicine for fields in health and medicine.
MEDLINE with Full Text (SUNYConnect): Contains the full text of over 1400 medical journals.
Mergent Online: Search for US Company data, including EDGAR reports.
Military and Government Collection (SUNYConnect) : Designed to offer current news pertaining to all branches of the military and government, also including full text pamphlets.
MLA International Bibliography: Covers literature, language, linguistics, dramatic arts and the practice of teaching language. Articles, books, book chapters, and dissertation citations from 1920-Present. Includes a directory of periodicals.
Music Index: This database indexes over 640 music periodicals online. Search by keyword or subject.
Music Online: A cross-searchable index of various databases including: African American Reference, Classical Music Reference, Garland Encyclopedia of World Music, Classical Scores Library, Smithsonian Global Sound, American Song, Classical Music library, Contemporary World Music and the Jazz Music Library.
National Newspaper Index : Full text coverage from 1977-Present of top-five American newspapers: Wall Street Journal, Christian Science Monitor, Los Angeles Times, Washington Post and New York Times (Book Review and Magazine included).
NAXOS Music Library: Naxos Music Library provides access to over 75,000 tracks and more than 5,000 CDs with over 2,500 composers represented. The library offers the complete Naxos, Marco Polo and Da Capo catalogues as well as Jazz and World music and educational products.
NetLibrary (SUNYConnect) : Search for books and other materials online. Contains over 500 medical and health eBooks and 125 new business titles, as well as over 1300 general titles and the free collection of over 3800 electronic items.
Newpaper Source Plus (SUNYConnect): Includes over 1500 full text newspapers in addition to over 500,000 radio and television transcripts.
New York State Newspapers : Full text coverage of several New York State newspapers.
North American Theatre Online: Information for every theatrical figure, play, theater, major production, and production company from Colonial Times to present, in both the United States and Canada.
North American Women's Drama: This collection contains more than 1,500 plays with related biographical, production, and theatrical information as well as playbills and photographs. Covers colonial times to the present.
Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center: Full text articles on social issues. Includes topic overviews, primary sources, statistics, photographs and podcasts.
Oxford English Dictionary: Definitions, history, and pronunciation of over 500,000 words.
Oxford Music Online
Offers users the ability, for the first time ever, to access and cross-search the vast resources of Oxford's music reference in one location. The cornerstone of Oxford Music Online, Grove Music Online, has been completely redesigned with a number of functional enhancements and new content.
Oxford Reference: includes over 175 titles language and subject reference works from the Oxford Companions and Oxford Dictionaries series, plus the Visual English Dictionary, the Oxford Dictionary of Quotations and the Encyclopedia of Mammals
Philosopher's Index: Citations and abstracts from books and journals of philosophy and related fields. Covers ethics, social philosophy, political philosophy as well as philosophy of law, religion, science, history, education and language.
Physical Review Focus: Provides summaries of selected research papers from Physical Review and Physical Review Letters.
Physical Review Online: Physics abstracts. Coverage from 1893 to Present. Includes Physical Review A, B, C, D, E. Also includes two special topic areas Accelerators & Beams and Physics Education Research.
PNAS Online: The Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. Coverage from 1915-Present. Includes articles, commentaries and author profiles.
Points of View Reference Center (SUNYConnect): A full-text database designed to provide students with a series of essays that present multiple sides of a current issue.
Primary Search : Designed specifically for elementary school libraries and public library children's rooms, contains full text for nearly 70 popular, elementary school magazines.
Professional Developement Collection (SUNYConnect) : Provides a highly specialized collection of electronic information especially for professional educators, professional librarians and education researchers. Includes full text for the Chronicle of Higher Education.
ProQuest Platinum: Contains periodicals covering a broad range of material: business, education, general reference, health, language arts, sciences, social sciences, and many other curriculum-specific subject areas. Browsable subjects include arts and humanities; computers and Internet; education; environment; health; lifestyles and culture; politics and government; science and mathematics; social issues and policy; and sports and entertainment.
Proquest Subsets:
PsycArticles: Full text articles covering general psychology as well as specialized, applied, clinical and theoretical research. Coverage from 1894-Present.
PsycInfo: Citations and summaries of psychology topics. Also includes the psychological aspects of medicine, psychiatry, nursing, sociology, education, pharmacology, physiology, linguistics, anthropology, business, and law. Coverage from 1887 to present.
Psychology and Behavioral Sciences Collection (SUNYConnect): Covers information concerning topics in emotional and behavioral characteristics, psychiatry and psychology, mental processes, anthropology, and observational & experimental methods.
Regional Business News (SUNYConnect) : Regional Business News incorporates 75 business journals, newspapers and newswires covering metropolitan and rural areas within the United States.
Religion and Philosophy Collection (SUNYConnect): Contains coverage of such topics and world religions, major denominations, biblical studies, religious history, epistemology, philosophy of language, etc.
RILM Music Abstracts: An abstracted bibliography of writings published worldwide. Contains entries in over 100 languages, with most citations abstracted in English. Over 500 scholarly journals are indexed, as well as dissertations, Festschriften, articles in books, conference proceedings, and videos of scholarly interest.
SciFinder Scholar: SciFinder Scholar is an electronic version of Chemical Abstracts providing direct access to research on chemicals, chemical reactions, & chemistry journals.
Smithsonian Global Sound: A virtual encyclopedia of the world's musical and aural traditions. Search by country, language, instrument, country, genre, etc. Listen to both music and spoken word.
SocIndex Plus Full Text: Provides journal articles for all areas of Sociology, with coverage for some journals dating back to 1895.
SportDiscus with Full Text: Search Sports and Sports Medicine Journals
Teacher Reference Center: Provides coverage on key education topics such as Assessment, Continuing Education, Current Pedagogical Research, Curriculum Development, Instructional Media, Language Arts, Literacy Standards, Science & Mathematics, and more
Twentieth Century North American Drama: Contains plays by more than 200 twentieth century North American playwrights.
Twayne's Authors Series f: Offers in-depth introductions to the lives and works of writers, the history and influence of literary movements and to the development of literary genres.
ValueLine Investment Surveys: A comprehensive source of information and advice on approximately 1,700 stocks, more than 90 industries, the stock market, and the economy.
Vocational and Career Collection (SUNYConnect): Provides coverage of more than 300 trade and industry-related periodicals.
WorldCat: Provides a search of millions of books, scores, dissertations, etc., from around the world. Use ILL to receive the item.
Women and Social Movements in the U.S.: Contains primary documents and images pertaining to women and social movements, 1600 to present.
World News Digest: This database compiles major headlines from around the world, and dates from 1940 - present.